alt Hacker NewsCan you give specific examples ? About the only thing I use the terminal for in Xcode is "git" - and even then these days I tend to use Fork.app for that.
Debugging is integrated, profiling is integrated, script-running as part of the build is integrated. Application output is integrated. What do you actually use it for ? Genuine question.
I guess the AI tools might be something - I don't know about that, I don't use them.
I work a lot with frameworks or languages that bring their own script runner or CLI companion to execute various tasks during development; quality checks or formatters, auxiliary tools like the Stripe webhook proxy, or interactive ones like a psql session into the database or a docker compose log stream; some of them longer-running, others single-shot executables.
Depending on what I'm doing, I need these processes either run alongside the project while I'm working on it (like watching source files), execute them automatically when something happens (like setting up a Stripe webhook proxy when I start the debug build), start them with environment configuration from the IDE (for example a database console), or really just have them close to the code (like a linter).
IntelliJ has a task runner built-in that can do all of this very easily, in a way that I can share it with the rest of my team, and don't have to bother with remembering specific commands.